A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer by Eve Ensler

Author:Eve Ensler [Edited by Ensler, Eve and Doyle, Mollie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-49676-8
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

Respect

Kimberle Crenshaw

Black vaginas

the hardest-working vaginas in America,

and still they get no respect.

No vagina has done so much for this country

and received so little. Really.

Black vaginas built this country.

It all started right here,

between blueberry black, chocolate cream, honey brown,

praline pecan

French vanilla

legs.

It wasn’t the Declaration of Independence,

the Constitution,

or the Stars and Stripes that gave birth to America.

It was the black vagina that laid the golden egg,

or rather, the chattel slave.

That’s right—during America’s formative years, the most valuable property it produced,

the property that the entire economy was based on, the property that was mortgaged to build America

was property in slaves.

Twelve billion dollars’ worth.

One can’t begin to fathom it in today’s dollars. And where did it come from? Whose vaginas passed this twelve billion dollars?

Whose vaginas were capitalized, colonized, and amortized all to give birth to America?

Whose vaginas have been appropriated, syndicated, deprecated, but never, ever

vindicated in the process of building this country?

The black vagina, the only vagina that was less valuable when it was protected, loved, and respected

than when it was open, taken, and occupied at will.

And the law made it that way—black women couldn’t be raped as a matter of law during those old days.

The law said

that rape was something that happened to white vaginas, not to black ones.

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